Many more to be added

BUGLE PUZZLE UPDATE B&C 88 Jun 97
The bugle is now in the Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum with its history as known.

BUGLE PUZZLE UPDATE TWO B&C 89 Dec 97
Mr LR Sharp, former SUFFOLK, has provided more information about the bugle, for which we are most grateful. He has been in touch with Arthur Lane, a bugler with the Manchester Regiment at the time of the capitulation. Arthur was a POW of the Japanese for three and a half years and wrote the book, 'Lesser Gods, Greater Devils', in which he mentioned his own bugle.
Arthur Lane wrote: 'The bugle buried at 10th Milestone Camp in February 1942, was a silver one with the names of all former holders of the title ‘Commanding Officer’s Bugler’ inscribed on the bell. At that date it was probably worth about £15. Today the value would be one hundred times more. My involvement was that my name was the next to be inscribed on the bugle.
I have returned to Singapore on several occasions and can still walk to the spot where it is now buried beneath 15 feet of soil taken from the various building sites and road building projects.
The bugle referred to in the B&C is one which belonged to a young drummer from the Loyal Regt named Ulliet, nicknamed 'Slugs' Ulliet, whom I mentioned in my book. After the capitulation there were just 5 brass and copper bugles allowed by the Japanese. Mine, on which I had soldered the Regimental badge and underneath etched my name, was stolen from the Manchester Regt Museum in Ashton under Lyne about 10 years ago. On Slugs’ bugle, he had inscribed the various countries including Japan. Socks Dryden of the Gordons had etched a cartoon of Donald Duck on the barrel. Jackie Rotherham of the Loyals had soldered a Loyal badge on the barrel and etched various designs along the stem. Archie McLeod of the Argylls engraved a shovel, thistle and a sabre on the barrel with, underneath, the words 'Scotland Forever.'
The last time I returned to Singapore, about 2 years ago, I found the shell of a drum belonging to my old regiment sitting outside a shack with a shrub growing from it.
I doubt if anyone knows about the bugles. Being drummers and buglers, we knew each other and, whenever our paths crossed, we would arrange time to have a natter. Six months before war ended, the Japanese decided that messages could be sent by us, by bugle call, to Allied soldiers advancing from Burma so all bugles were confiscated.
One or two were returned to us after the war but I know that Jackie Rotherham’s and Alec McCleod’s bugles had been taken to Japan. They are now in the Tokyo war history museum.'

BUGLE PUZZLE UPDATE THREE
The information above was summarised and passed to Kate Thaxton, Assistant Keeper, Social History (Military), at the Regimental Museum:
B&C 86 Jun 96 reported that Maj Tom Eaton has acquired a bugle stamped 'TMA Music House', with underneath, inscribed by hand, 'Singapore, Thailand, Japan.' Unusually, it has a cord ring on the bell end and another on a lower tube. It came via the employer of Mr Easthaugh, Donald Steward's batman, and was used in the POW camps and on the railway before being confiscated by the Japanese. After the railway was complete it was retrieved and went with 14 Royal Norfolk soldiers to Japan.
B&C 88 Jun 97 followed by announcing the bugle was in The Regimental Museum, ' ...with its history as known.'
I wonder if you are aware of a piece that was in B&C 89 Dec 97, relevant parts of which are: 'Mr LR Sharpe, former SUFFOLK, has provided more information about the bugle, for which we are most grateful. He has been in touch with Arthur Lane, a bugler with the Manchester Regiment at the time of the capitulation. Arthur was a POW of the Japanese for three and a half years and wrote the book, 'Lesser Gods, Greater Devils', in which he mentioned his own bugle.
Arthur Lane wrote: 'The bugle referred to in the B&C is one which belonged to a young drummer from the Loyal Regt named Ulliet, nicknamed 'Slugs' Ulliet, whom I mentioned in my book. After the capitulation there were just 5 brass and copper bugles allowed by the Japanese. On Slugs’ bugle, he had inscribed the various countries including Japan. Six months before war ended, the Japanese decided that messages could be sent by us, by bugle call, to Allied soldiers advancing from Burma so all bugles were confiscated.'
I don't know if Arthur is still alive but in 1997 he was at address given but withheld from this site and Mr LR Sharpe at address given but withheld from this site.

Kate replied:
Thank you for the information, I will add it to the object records.
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I be a lad from Norfolk
Pris'ner now at Singapore.
I miss the fields of Norfolk
And people even more.
Try eating yams, papaya, rice,
On which I've had to feed.
Compare the Norfolk dumplings
Think of a tasty swede.
I'd rather get behind the plough
And never say I stayed
And sweated in the regions where
It's ninety in the shade.
These far off places be alright
And some be might pretty
But none of them have got the charm
And grace of Norwich City.

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